You had a nice house and TV in your 20s.
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A buddy and me were the first in our circle to get an apartment after college, so we became the meeting place. It wasn't a party house, we drank beer, and smoked weed, but it was calm and quiet, and the old folks below us never complained. They were frequent visitors, as a matter of fact.
People would start showing up around 8. My buddy and I managed different record stores, and we were into all sorts of music, and we had ALL the latest promo recordings, so usually we had a ball game on the TV with no sound (for our buddy Mark, who loved sports), while we listened to music, smoked, and talked. There were usually a dozen people, guys and girls, all ages, right up to old folks downstairs, sometimes. He'd had a stroke, and he could understand everything, but couldn't converse, beyond random curse words, which he would deliver with either exasperation or disbelief, which we all thought was hilarious, and so did he and his wife.
At 11:30, we'd watch Johnny Carson's monologue on the TV, and at midnight wed switch it over to two episodes of Twilight Zone. After that, everybody went home.
That was our ritual about 3-4 nights a week for a couple of years, until everybody started to scatter as they found jobs in different places. We'd go out now and then, but only because we weren't going to meet any new girls hanging around our apartment. Going out often meant moving the party to someone else's place for the night.
We couldn't afford to go out to party much, but we always had a better time at home with our friends, especially since there were no threats of judgemental parents, RAs, etc. Our first real taste of true adult freedom was sweet enough to keep us happy.
plot twist: the "old" folks downstairs were 35.
Wait a minute, you had furniture AND a television that was fairly up to date? What sort of bougie person is this?
This is in their parents' house.
The sort of person with recently dead (or rich) parents, probably. My brother and I constantly joke that when our mom dies, we’ll just move into her house and live rent free. Because it’s the only way either of us will ever come close to owning real estate.
I feel for the new generation.
Some were born in recession, grew up in covid lockdowns, studying with AI slop, and the the job market is shit. And some losers are trying to create unending wars.
The world is now on hard mode by default.
Came here to say this.
No matter where you live, the people coming into adulthood now don't get to experience the world we did, and they know it. And what's worse is the unlikelihood that any of them will ever get elected federally in order to try and actually change it.
"You've got to start local, so we can suppress it one at a time."
Don't feel too bad. I am old, but I made just about every incorrect decision you can and had a rather dull youth because of it.
I grew up rural (not my fault, but still sucked) in a place I did not fit in. Wrong color. I went to college, but skipped living in a dorm and went straight to apartment. Met nobody, made zero friends in two years. Did meet wife, so that's good.
Moved to different city, went to commuter college, lived off campus. In final year, started making friends, then moved away. Moved cross country, lived in small town of mostly retired people. Worked in different town. No friends for two more years. Moved to LA. Made some friends, moved again.
Moved to Pennsylvania in suburbs. Bleh.
Lesson is, live around others, don't move so much. Stay put goddammit and don't treat friendship as disposable because you know you will move again.
Living many places was kind of fun, but now I'm old and have few friends. The ones I do have all live far away, so I see them maybe every five to ten years.
Pick a place that is good, don't bail when it's not perfect and dig in. Maintain friendships.
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Excuse you, I'm waiting in videogame lobby as we speak while browsing through Lemmy to pass few seconds as I wait for other players to join. Ohhh, there's the beep. I must play now.
Honestly, just moving into a semi-walkable 120k pop city did wonders for my social life. Its literally just the convenience of being able to just go and socialize on a dime basically whenever.
People moving into suburbia and rural areas are insane. Just asking for mental illness.
Too bad cities don't come with friends
You'd have ample chances to meet some though. That is basically what I've been doing for the past 4 months since moving into my apartment with a surprising amount of success, given how crotchety and autistic I am.
I've lived in 4 of the biggest cities in the world and I've just hit 30 and moved rural - smaller cities are best for socialising, but depending on your hobbies rural can be better than big cities. Completely agree that walkability is key, just adding nuance that I don't agree that cities in general are great like I used to - it can be very hard to live a nice life in a major city
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Rural area can be walkable as well.
I'm living in a village (~1500 people), we have one car for 3 adults and the car is used maybe once a week on average.
Everything else is done walking or biking. Walking the kids to school taking a path along a steam of water, there is several bar and restaurants in the village center, a bakery, a small grocery shop, a local producers shop, a market, barber ... I'm working remotely and I have a coworking space in the village as well.
The streets are always busy and everyone say hi to each other.
We just need to have less car centric spaces.
Love this. Where is this? I'm trying to convince local people that we can develop less car-centric spaces in rural areas and I'd love more examples to use
I'm in France.
Euro-rural just hits different.
American rural is usually something like "5 pioneer families started farms along a dirt road here 100 years ago, but the market on corn bottomed out and they mostly sold their plots to housing developers or speculators, and whoever didn't move out either works at the gas station or in the city an hour and a half away to support the drug habits of the ones that couldn't find work".
Villages can be ok. It still fundamentally limits you to the median type of person though, and I'm pretty strange and picky, I need big numbers so I can find my people.
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